Seems someone didnt tell the full story when advising of this on the web. Got this off the Surrey list today..

There is a note currently doing the rounds that suggests Ancestry is allowing freeaccess to all their records on UK Census day on 27 March. This appears to be slightly misleading and is not quite the full picture.

The situation seems to be that on 27 March there will be free access to the census*indexes* for England, Wales and Scotland via **Ancestry.co.uk** . One will need to sign up to a 14 day free trial to have access to the images. See:http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/03/21 ... 7th-march/

If considering doing this it could be worth comparing with Ancestry.com where the full world-wide package of records is also, apparently, available for 14 day free trial seemingly on a similar basis.